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No censorship, you say. Suppose I were to write a script that text-encodes a file and splits it up among a bunch of posts, and another that reverses the process
by skymt 11y ago
No censorship, you say. Suppose I were to write a script that text-encodes a file and splits it up among a bunch of posts, and another that reverses the process, like the Usenet binary tools. Now suppose someone uses this to leak a highly-anticipated new album. You receive a DMCA request quickly followed by a strongly-worded letter from a Hollywood lawyer instructing you to take down the offending posts or face legal action. What do you do?
("Contact us" is broken, otherwise I'd send this privately, but since the service is just in testing: you should probably use XSRF tokens for voting.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoCopyright you can get away with.. what about child pornography? That's something that'll not only get you in big trouble, but your site can be secretly filtered and disappear from the Internet in various countries (such as the United Kingdom). 4chan has survived because of censorship. You know the "mods are asleep, post <X>" meme? That came from people posting high-resolution images of things which had child pornography hidden in them steganographically. (No anti-XSRF tokens? Click here to vote for my post, then! http://frizbee.co/vote.php?dothis=that&q=42091 http://frizbee.co/vote.php?dothis=that&q=42091) (Edit: OMG! You can upvote infinitely! Just keep requesting the same page!) (Edit 2: You can DOWNVOTE infinitely!)
- Cushman 11y agoTechnically, they don't even qualify for safe harbor protection since there's no registered agent, and their policy seems to be "we won't or can't remove anything for any reason". So they might get a DMCA takedown request, but even if they comply with it they would still have liability and could still be sued.